an introductory engineering and life science approach /
Kim Gail Clarke.
xix, 245 pages :
illustrations ;
25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical development : from ethanol to biopharmeceuticals -- Microbiology -- Metabolic macromolecules -- Molecular biology -- Carbon metabolism -- Enzymes as biocatalysts -- Microbial kinetics during batch, continuous and fed-batch processes -- The oxygen transfer rate and overall volumetric oxygen transfer coefficient -- Bioprocess scale up -- Bioprocess asepsis and sterility -- Downstream processing.